An improved relationship with government was put in motion for regional Métis last week with the signing of a charter between the Sunset Country Métis and the Métis Nation of Ontario. “This gives us more autonomy within the MNO and draws us all together. It gives us a stronger voice,” […]
District News
Evelyn Brown was honoured as 1997 Senior of the Year for La Vallee in recognition of her dedication to the community. A very quiet person by nature, but someone who loves people, Brown visits the sick and shut-ins in the hospital or their homes, taking along baking. She also volunteers […]
It only happens once, and the Burriss Women’s Institute wants to make sure the event doesn’t go by unnoticed. That’s why the group met Monday night to get the ball rolling on Burriss’ 100th anniversary party, which they’re aiming to hold this summer. “We’d like to have a family day […]
Laura Zimmerman and Greg Hartlin each walked away with a little cash from the annual banquet of the Rainy River District 4-H Association held Feb. 6 at the Devlin Community Hall. Zimmerman won the DeGagne Award ($100 and a trophy) as the calf club member who accumulated the greatest number […]
The Rainy River District Municipal Association may have to wait before it sees an independent audit on the Northwestern Health Unit because the Kenora District Municipal Association failed to pass a similar resolution at its annual meeting in Dryden. “That didn’t even come to the floor,” Dryden Mayor Roger Valley, […]
Last week was graduation day for students at Sturgeon Creek and Donald Young School who participated in the Drug Awareness Resistance Education (DARE) program taught by Fort Frances OPP Cst. Mark Boileau. Students had to write an essay on “Ways to Say No” after viewing skits on the subject. Sturgeon […]
La Vallee council is puzzled after being told it will be subsidizing child care on an 20/80 split with the province starting this year. It isn’t sure if the $4,000 it’s been told to pay by the province will go to the private-owned day care centre operated at Crossroads School […]
The interpretive centre at the Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung mounds near Stratton is undergoing a metamorphosis these days as “phase two” of the building project is well underway. Rainy River First Nations Chief Jim Leonard said a gift shop, restaurant, and archaeological lab are going up on the site as a part of […]
Rural students in grades seven and eight will be converging on Donald Young School in Emo on Feb. 6 when it hosts its first career fair. DYS principal Nancy Fretter and teacher Kim Bolen have been asking area businesses and professionals if they’d be willing to set up an information […]
Gord Johnston may call himself “the new kid on the block” but the newest partner at the Fairway Store in Emo is anything but new to the grocery and meat business. Johnston, who officially became part-owner of Fairway on Jan. 16, has been working in grocery stores since he was […]
Community members on the Big Grassy First Nation, near Morson, have good reason to smile these days after the official opening of a housing project there last week. The nine-unit structure, including four single family homes and one five-unit complex, was built by the community. “This was a unique project […]
At Friday’s annual meeting, members of the Rainy River District 4-H Association will be discussing the same problem that’s plagued it for the past several years–finding new leaders. Local 4-H president Ellen Chojko-Bolec said the association only had 18 active leaders last year. “We’re really low,” she stressed. “We really […]
